January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... and expand globally in the coming years. There are serious and feasible plans for a range of proposed space activities, from launching constellations of thousands of small satellites and operation of transportation systems for safe and convenient...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... for successful colonisation. Values and principles Technological advancements and the lowering cost of space activities associated with the Space 2.0 revolution will give rise to novel and unanticipated human rights concerns, existent in an era...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... applications”. By comparison, this proposed definition can be contrasted with the definition of ‘commercial’ space activities in the US National Space Policy, issued in 2010 under the Obama administration: “the term ‘commercial’, for the purposes...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... charged particles. Even if such radiation cannot directly reach humans on Earth, it can harm humans involved in orbital space activities and can also disturb the areas through which high frequency radio communication travels. During a solar...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... they are doing and where. It is worth keeping in mind what the Accords are about: civil space activities. Security operations in space have their own rules, and don’t often raise the same novel challenges posed by human...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
..., drafted at the height of the Cold War when space activity was the preserve of two superpowers, the United States ...ownership of these principles. The changing of behaviours in space activity and the move towards an underpinning value-system based on...
